US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on May 20 for "Light detecting device, optical device and method of manufacturing the same" (Taiwanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,123, issued on May 20, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Light detecting device, optical device and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Chewn-Pu Jou (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Lan-Chou Cho (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Weiwei Song (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a light detecting device. The light detecting devices includes an insulating layer, a silicon layer, a light detecting layer, N first doped regions and M second doped regions. The silicon layer is disposed over the insulating layer. The light detecting layer is disposed over the s...